>> ♪ >> this is fox5 news morning. mning >> and a good monday morning mor to you. it is january 25th and yes the big digout continues. >> across our area some peoplerea are still snowed in.are we have live team coverage inerag i d.c. maryland and virginia. virgi >> we want to say good morningor to you.

we're glad you're with us. i'm holly morris. mor this is maureen umeh. our dear friend wisdom, he'sisdom, he's snowed in. the digout continues of courseurs for most everybody from the from the blizzard of 2016. of01 the federal government isovnmen closed today. however, emergency and telework ready employees should follow their agency's policies. po >> closed today most schoolstoda in our area.in o all of the closings aresi scrolling on the bottom ofhe your screen and a list is on our web site fox5d.c.com.ox5d.c.c >> let's get you caught up on the latest in the blizzard aftermath.af 30 deaths are blamed on thete storm, about half of which areare f of which due to shovelingare and carbon cbo monoxide. monoxi one of the latest fatalitiestalies an 82-year-old d.c. man who.an w had a heart attack while shoveling.shoving. metro today will try to getoet somewhat back on track. limited rail service on therail orange red and green linesre lin will begin at 7:00 a.m.. limited bus service begins att noon. . erin will of course have more h on all of that in just a moment. mo at least one runway willunway be opened this morning at a reagan national and dulles

airports.ts. bwi marshall's web site listsite plenty cancellations but alsoutls some flights due to take offak on time this morning. mning >> this morning we have reporters covering every angleering ev of the storm all across the dmv. >> let's get right to melanie alnwick who is live inwho is live i gaithersburg maryland with therg mar latest on the conditionsylitio there. so how was it getting there the mel? >> reporter: you know, the you roads are looking much betterter but yeah, they are definitelyefinel icy this morning. mning so, anyone who is thinkinghinkg that oh, i think i can getan get out today you can but youan but have to be really careful andareful it is really difficult getting around the neighborhoodghbooo streets because as we talkedalke about yesterday they reallyday they reall have been only able to plowo plo one lane, that was yesterdaywas yes and then you've got all the --- everyone who was digging out their cars yesterday then madenade the even higher snow piles sow piles it's literally like driving through a shoulder deep tunnelne in some places trying to get around the nabbed streets.

streets --re neighborhood streets.hborhood s verytr tricky. everyone saying part ofne saying pa the decision to close was they w t know there are services peopleces people want to be able to take advantage of in the city. however, they know that thehey numknber one priority is gettinget the streets cleared andts cle a getting the residents mobile mob again. agai montgomery county again noy again no ride on bus service today.od no trash or recycling.ec. that's probably going to beoin b the case in almost anyt y locality because they can'tec have those trash trucks and trucks and recycling trucks coming aroundround the convenient the alleys. all frankly there's nowhere to puto your trash can and recycling rycli bin anywhere. they will eventually get toually get to it. liquor stores in montgomeryre county also closed today. i know some people mis gho t be disappointed about that but you know, there could be worse be w things. back to you guys.u >> there are? just kidding. >> thanks mel. t bob barnard in thehabarnin the

district way check on thect way c roads this morning.heads this >> he joins us live with the details. details. hey, bob. >> reporter: hey hollyol maureen good morning. morning this is church street is northwest just between 16th6t and 14th way down there.nhe take a look.ook. it hasn't been touched many bee people have cleared theleed sidewalks which puts more snow more s in the street.tr a lot of cars haven't been cleared at all. so, a lot of digging out to be t b done here on church streeturch northwest today tomorrow torro whenever it happens.en district government is closed.ent d.c. public schools are closed. closed. the federal government isnmen i closed. cl metro is going to be operating oti on a limited schedule startingta at 7 o'clock this morning.ning according to d.c. mayor murielay bowser the snow emergency is s still in effect and what w they've been asking people to do is as you see here clearere c your sidewalks if you can. c especially imploring businesses, they want thees, wan business community to come community to come back to life so they're askingresk everybody to clear their t sidewalks especially so thatally so that people aren't forced to walkforced to wal on the street and i don't see anybody now but we have seen people walking up and downp and do

16th street to get to where wre they're going even though inhougin this particular block here theck here the sidewalks are clear.de it's probably not the case allal the way up so people are are taking to the streets ando the st police say they dough wantdoh people to do that at $250 fine f if you're found to have parkedar on a snow emergency route which 16th street s the snow the snow emergency continues, thentinue the digout continues.ut conti it is going to be a long day. d there are hopeful signs.eful signs we've seen gas stations whichtionwh have posted premium gas only but with fuel trucks there.trks t trucks have been out as earlys e as we saw 4 o'clock this this morning last hour that are outho tha refilling the gas stationstati which have been running veryrunni low on gas, bice guys.ceuy >> bob what's the street the stree behind you because it looks horrific. horrif >> reporter: yeah, this ish, this church street northwest between 16th and 14th.h. yeah, you don't want to bet e living on this block today. >> no. >> no. >> definitely not. >> all right, bob, appreciate, re it. thank you. th >> all right then bob out there braving the elements. ele it's still very cold.ery c 19 degrees is what it says i say right there..

>> but it's three at frederick and three at culpeperulpeper, manassas.ma >> as in one, two 3 degrees. deges. >> nas one, two, three yeah.o, t yea let me just say this. t i just want to say this. s t late week we do need to watch wat something okay. o i'm ju putting the out there. >> uh-oh. gary. >> gary, you can go home rightme rig now. >> let's look -- this has beeneen a point of contention in thentioin meteorological world.teorolal top five storm, tied for fourth. 17.8 but everybody is like how in the heck. hk. >> right. >> right >> did d.c. national reagan national just get 17.8-inches7.8-in of snow? how did that happen but that's the official. that goes dow- goes dow >> i heard them on them on t national news this morning sayni that the actual whatever readsev the snow was buried in snowno and that's why it was inaccurate. is that true. is t >> i don't know yet. i don i haven't done a lot oft research because i've been i'v bee dealing with my own issues thes the last couple of days. d >> let's stick to weather,th gary. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah,h, y [laughter] >> hold on. but that is -- and that ties for 2010 basically so thatally

storm in february circumstance six of 2010. 201 it seemed like it was moremed than that. >> we're just go together say it is. >> i'm not dissing the weather service. e. >> i'll do it for if you. you. you. >> 35 degrees for dulles. dulle and starting out so cold thisd morning. single digits in places andnd then we're 19 here in town. t >> do you guys have like a dance-off to prove who is right. >> we did. we were all together at some point this week. we all wrote down ourn r predictions.edicti we said that the loser woulderou have to cover somebody's shift or something like that but the but bosses would never agree to itit so i don't know if any of ifnow ny you say won. i think we all overdid theid t numbers at national. niona because those numbers didn't dt change. it was like 17-inches in the early morning and then it washeit

like 17 --ke 17 >> i don't buy it.>> >> let's go ahead and talk'sahea traffic now with erin como.th erin >> on-time traffic brought to brought to you by toyota.u byoyot visit buy a toyota.com fora.co official offers.cial >> we'll start you off with art y live look bottom of the beltway by van dorn street.n stre as you make your way acrossos the wilson bridge you can seean s traffic very light very few very f trucks or cars out and aboutbo this morning. morni. my best advice if you have toe make your way out to work or work maybe to run an important ior errand slow down, factor inactor in plenty of extra time, avoid secondaries.ies. several in the d.c., marylandhe d.c mar and virginia areas have not h crete been plowed.e beenlowed. keep in mind bridges and overpasses and on and off o ramps tend to freeze first. those are areas of specificpeci concern this morning where youis m want to reduce your speeds. spe let's switch it over. i over. all our cameras pretty quietuiet not seeing much activity in activit any of them right now exceptxc for plows going by in just as go few vehicles.w vehicles. two water main breaks thisin baks morning.mo one in silver spring, 193 1 affected in both directionsh re east and westbound betweenet east wayne avenue and piney avenue and p branch road.

avoid that area and watch for slick spots.. the second one pretty busyy road in alexandria normallyor but not that much traffic out. water main break westbound westb king street closed at quakertua lane. we'll take a look at publicc transportation and metro rail metro r lines as we continue. holly.y. >> thanks erin. >> here's a question tto your.uen barbecue anyone? >> yes.>> y. >> the blizzard didn't stopd didn st wayne from grilling thisfr weekend in maryland.omd in there he is.s. love it. bud light in hand.nan i like that wishful thinking because our melanie alnwickck has pointed out several times t we're own two months away m until spring.l sp i think the cherry blossomlossom festival is it a its in twotwo months. keep sending your blizzardr blizzard pics. use #digout or the winter awakens. awakens.

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broncos upset the patriots 20 to 18. to 18. pan jersey crushedpanthers crushed the cardinals cardinals. coming up a an update onp a the local airports for thoserts fo of you who plan to head out ofd out o town soon.to >> first we'll do weather ande'll traffic and we'll get a sneak get s peek from gary right now. r n >> hope you get plowed outlowe soon so you can get out and not go stir crazy but erin isbut going to come back withe back w traffic. i've got the forecast, too.oo it's cold, okay and we're w going to slowly begin to warmar up and maybe melt some of thisfhi off and, you know what happens hap and that turns to ice again.in. so a lot of things to talkso talk about weather-wise.er-wis here's the -- here's the picture from outside. we'll come back with weather and traffic. stay with us.

>> ♪ >> sidewalks are going to look like walking across snow s mounds everywhere.veryer good job to the road crew sodrew far. man, they are getting it donegettg it and you know they're workingor hard to get it do.et i it may take awhile to get your specific plowed.if patience here but i know thoset guys are working. working did i hear them say 24 hour4 h shifts these guys are doing? wow, that's uncredible.nc high pressure to the west ofsse to us. us. snow cover in place so it actst kind of like a refrigerator soo we end up with these snow lows l this morning in the singleorni digits to teens here in town. i we have few spots already downdyow around zero. zero. let's see manassas wasnassas 3 degrees, frederick wasas 3 degrees this morning. m clouds are coming across so so don't expect much sunshine s today. we'll briefly get up to about 37 degrees. some of you ma ebb a little ebb a l bit above freezing or just approaching freezing but with butit the sun going away notg away n everybody is going to get mucho above freezing if they do atyo a all. tomorrow a few showers not a a lot. lot. temperature gets up to about a 44 tomorrow.44 so, we'll do some melting

tomorrow. 19 degrees reagan nationaln naonal now, dulles has dropped aas dro degree, you're down to five. bwi marshall is 12 degrees.2 ees. temperatures out there rightur now teens for us, pittsburgh 19 new york city hard too believe new york city isrkity 30 degrees right now with the wit amount of snow that they havet they hav on the ground but they have b probably a little bit of a aittl breeze still there so that'sha keeping temperatures mixed ups ixed a little bit.le. columbus is 22. lexington kentucky is 26. is they got a bunch of snow out there as well. clouds are stream on across.m oncr there's no precip in thesen t clouds so we don't need toeed worry about that and it doest thdo look like we'll have mostly havmostly cloudy skies. we'll wake up to some highom hig clouds coming on across ands a they'll thicken through the throu the day. some folks briefly above freezing. we'll be back to about 37 about trees for a high but later b l this afternoon temperatureson tempe will come off that a little bit. ones out of the northeast o about five to 10 miles peril p hour. 37 today. tay 44 tomorrow. 44 t a few showers tomorrow, rain showers. cold air comes in wednesday. 40 degrees. 40 d a few flakes.

now, look, right now we're going thursday mostly sunnyrsday friday a few clouds and 38.nd 3 there's another storm that srm wants to come up the coast c right now most of the modelinghe model is indicating that staying farying enough off shore that we don't we have to worry about it. i but we still have to keep anee eye on it.on i that's all i'm going say about that topic at this point.his pnt mostly sunny on saturday. sur mostly sunny on sunday.ny oun temperatures will make it up u into the mid to upper 40's and 40's the lower 50's.0' here's erin with a look at traffic.fic. >> 5:18 gary and we arend are tracking some issues. iss i want to show you a live look a live outside. this is 66 out by nutleyutle street and you can see trafficra picking up on the road right there. urge you to stay off the road the rd if at all possible.ble. watch for icy patchesicy patches especially on bridgesbrid overpasses on and off ramps o right nown .tow we'll let and how interstatesntstates continue to shape upcont throughout the morning.ho we have a problem on gwut parkway. the northbound side is closednd right now between spout s runpo r parkway and 123. that is for snow removal andov

we're getting word from police pol that they anticipate thatatthat closure to be in place throughhr about noon so that's a routeoute you definitely want to avoid.wa to av southbound side also dealingnd s with some icy conditions.s. aside from that two water main breaks this morning. morng one in silver spring 193 between east wayne avenue and anue piney branch road.pi avoid that area and watch forrea that water freezing out there. tre westbound king street closed at quaker lane for a waterne main break location as well.ell. aside from that as you takeou t public transportation todayatio keep in mind vre service is still suspended marc line marli service suspended.. metrobus operating from noonm n until 5 o'clock on their lifeline service plan. service limited to 22 rounds to 22 rou and metro access servicervice suspended. we'll take a look at railkra next. that's your traffic.'sr tr back to you maureen and holly.olly >> speaking of people on the pple roads let's go back out to megan dice. >> she's on the roads in virginia. how are things looking now, megan? >> reporter: hey there. hey the we were just on 66 east. e many lanes blocked there exit e

62, for instance vienna v fairfax trying to clear some car s of the exits still.o we're on 395 north headingea towards that water main breakin b in alexandria, the westboundhetb king street is closed.lo we'll bring you all the latest there. th but vdot crews have plowed and and treated all interstate andand major primary roads.oa as you can see this is looking quite clear.le very easy sort of to drive on looking much different thanfe t yesterday. however those low temperatures right now again i have to say this it's not scientific but our car is reading 19 degrees outside. you have to worry about blackbout b ice as you wake unthisunthis morning. wake up this uth morning. rn remain patient for your subdivision for those secondary roads as we brought b you to many of those secondary son roads this morning and as youorning saw we were having to sort of o off-road at some point so bet s very careful there.he. many subdivisions untouched atto this point. they are running 24 hour

operations to try and help get those subdivisions and secondary roads clear.dsle try to avoid travel. also vdot plows.org vdot vdo plows.org i was showing thishowi for the last couple days, thisayhis is a map or you can basicallyally go in plug in your address see addss if you're in the cue to beo plowed or if, you know, k they're on their way.heir it's a great way to see whenn you're going get unstuck. we're going to send it back totac you guys. >> patience patience.atienc >> there will be a snowball snowbal fight in dupont circle. >> hey tucker coming in to work. that is hysterical.ysri he doesn't know he's on.w 's >> i hope he doesn't do anything crazy. crazy look. >> there you go.>> our weather people -- pple >> that is so unfair.i >> hardest working people inking the business. the busi look at that.look at that >> poor tucker. poor >> with his little backpack onn

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she's been waiting for this moment for awhile. a moment other kids wouldn't think twice about. her first bowl of cheerios. because now that cheerios are gluten free, violet, and many others are enjoying their first bowl today. >> look at that. >> all the snow. all sno perfect excuse of course for acourseor snowball fight. the tradition at dupontupont rcle taking place on sunday.day. >> dozen of people braving theing

t cold for the star wars themeds battle including our very own v erin como and kevin mccarthyar who kept on his snowflake swf suit. >> didn't make him a target at h a t all.al >> no, not even a little bit. >> like snow boulders.ders >> in all honesty it wasn't h really good snowball snow. snow. >> no. >> it was like a bunch ofa bch people doing the lebron james. >> exactly. >> cold air came into thisinto thi storm drier air, too and the ratios of show were a little bit -- the ratios were are little higher than what we thought so that made i thinke t some of this fluff up a little a ltl bit more. >> easier to shovel. e >> yes, it didn't stick to thet s trees. what do we have a couple off thousand power outages, thatag, that was about it?t >> it was amazing. ama that's what i thought we wouldht wwoul be talking about widespread widesprea power outages. >> whatever pepco has doneas d hats off to them. 2010 so miserable because soecau

many people were out of power.ower 19 degrees right now. manassas three.ss culpeper eight. culp dulles andep around those t western suburbs down into thein single digits.to frederick still sitting atting three. it's not so cold along that i-81 corridor but it's still iti in the teens. teens clouds are starting to come -- com i think it's going to be a beautiful sunrise this morningse if we can get some of those clouds to the east of the city, it will be supere s gorgeous as the sun is comingin up.up. snow on my mind.owmy m 37 trees for a high today briefly and some spots willpots will get to freezing a little bit b above but with the clouds thickening up not a lot ofotot o sunshine will keepsuns will keep temperatures pretty cold.d. >> okay. let's go ahead and see if wend sf can talk traffic now with erin como. are you out there, erin? e >> i am walking in from the little traffic command center checking all the cameras.er >> something is going on o because normally when you'rehen y kind of late --at >> good thing is nothing isthin going on right now on our interstates. >> oh, what were you doing?t were y >> hey look, our producer danielle she's snowed in snowe right. >> she's snowed in.>> s

>> so, you're doing. >> doing the graphics. gra >> we're having a party maybe. >> or getting herself anotherno cup of coffee. c >> i had one cup so far.o i would like a second. son right now nice quiet viewuiet vie right here. take a look at our cameras.amer no real traffic that we're worrying about a-few vehicles. vic this is 395 on the inboundnb side out by duke street.tree really want to use caution onauon your bridges overpasses on ands on off ramps. megan dice said she has beenas b driving around saw some off ramps closed on 66. 6 detour around them if you have to be out and about today.utod we'll show you some of ouref graphics. dealing with some otherg problems around twihe area as werea take a look at our maps. we're dealing with a water main break in silver springg closing a portion ofortion of university boulevard.ou we'll get to a closer look atser loo that on gw parkway as well as as we continue.nu keep it to fox5 news morning. >> ♪

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treatment for radiant skin. >> ♪ >> first at 5:30, a few things30 you need to know on thiss monday morning. morng all local public schools and a federal government offices in oices d.c. are closed today.. >> metro though running on on limited service from 7:00 a.m.vi fro to midnight with no service on svi the silver, the blue and the yellow lines.in the rails fares will not beill charged.chard. metro buses will operate from fro noon until 5:00 p.m. but will will only run on 22 routes on whatont is called lifeline service.li >> getting around this morningd th can be a bit challenging to to say the least that's even ifve you can get out of yourcan neighborhood. >> let's check in again with fox5's bob barnard who has h

been on the move all morning.orng bob, the street next to youou looks like it's pretty good.etty goo >> reporter: this is neworter: this hampshire avenue, maureen andnd holly, yeah some streets areee good, some are not at all.ll this one the surface is still i s wet but it's not icy not too slippery. that's not the case on a lot on a of side streets.treets. a lot of side streets are are sheet of ice.shof take a look at this. thi we see a lot of this out and o about today.ouday these are cars buried by theby plows that have come by and by the trouble is as these people try to dig out today they'reto going to bending basically on new hampshire avenue whichvenue whi you know barely two cars cans get by any way and this is a fairly busy thorofare. imagine trying dig out that out t jeep and standing first in thers road and then closer to your y car but it's not going to be aoe safe thing.sa some people have already done alr d it. this person right here has not. no so, it's going to be a very v delicate operation.peraon these cars are just buried andd so, you know you're going tong have to start here, chip awayway

here, get to your -- get close g c to your car to then maybe ithen yb out but you're --make it out. out this car they already did it. they did it last night. ist night. the car has been cleared.r has be i don't know if he's been out or not or she's been out orutr not but it's not going to beo easy even doing that but justus these cars that haven't beenen'tee touched yet it's going to be an hard deal guys.deal maybe there will be fewer be f people out on the road but o it's not going to be aut safety. saf on the snow emergency routesnow d.c. police say they'll ticket you $250 if you park your carar on a snow emergency route soemer those have to be cleared.veo these other streets werets w people park along them everylohem e day and every night not so n much but again, a difficult aifficu task ahead and i hear a shovel sho so somewhere in the distance the dnc someone is starting thatg t process but it's not going tooi be easy and it is going to be b dangerous guys.s, >> that's right, bob. b let's stay on the roads andds a tell you about this one. abouthi a heads up if you use the george washington memorialngto parkway.park the northbound section fromecon f spout run to 495 is closed cse

until noon today. tod it will then shut down againown aga 8 o'clock tonight until 4:00:0 tuesday morning.ning it's so crews can remove the large walls of snow built upw b from the plows that have been that have clearing the road.clea the r >> new this morning, princece george's county fire county department fighting the snowheno and cold overnight to put outut this house fire in the 6900 t 690 block of 23rd place ince chillum.il one person and an infant weren infan taken to the hospital withpitalit minor injuries.r injuries. no word on a cause. cau >> in fairfax county there was a carbon monoxide square at the garden style apartment building in herndon virginia on elden street. the carbon monoxide wasrb located in what appeared to bet ap a boiler room.oiro >> the snowstorm turned deadly in the district.isict. an 82-year-old man had a heart attack and died whiledhi shoveling snow in front of hisow in t of home. d.c.'s chief medical examinermi did not release the man's name's n but encouraged people peo shoveling to take breaks andnd stay hydrated.ydrated. >> in delaware a u.s. capitolap police officer also suffered aufre

heart attack and died whilehi shoveling at his home. vernon alston was just 44as j years old.year old. law a 20 year veteran of thef force.forc he leaves behind a wife 13 children. and> three children. chire >> our melanie alnwick live inck le i gaithersburg this morning with m the latest and really they do the need at least one more day right mel?right, >> reporter: i think so. thi so. that would be a really goodallyoo idea even though i know inno i talking to business owners that they are anxious to tryre to get opened because every single day that they've been b shut especially weekend daysnd are big money lost business, busin lost revenue and so i knoww that they're anxious to try to do what they can and and especially if you're in ann area where people can can walk wal to you where the employees the e can walk there, i know they're ty' going give it a try. also the city of gaithersburg,aithsbur i was on the phone with the pne w mayor yesterday, he was reallye was r kind of debaterring deciding dec whether or not to opponento opponent

city government. ultimately steve gaithersburgerur decided to stayd alonglosed a with montgomery county to giveomery coun people that extra reason tom reason to stay home so they really cane sohey try to get the crews out there. ther roads that have been plowed or pwe plowed in just one lane only and they really would like toouike get them two lanes if they could. and it is very, veryry challenging and again they t all recognize they are going ey a have to get equipment in hereere to hall away the snow. sno there simply is nowhere elsehe e to put it and in then t neighborhoods you're ending up with streets where the berms t b are really high. h it's like driving through tunnels.tunnel so, asking everyone just to, you know, little bit more patience and they'll t eventually get it done. back to you guys.. >> thanks mel.s appreciate it. 5:35 is our time right now. there's another live look at buffalo, new york.ew yor i mean it looks like it could i be but no. >> that's erie pennsylvania.ennsylvania. >> alas, it is the dmv and so

now we need to talk aboutalk what's going to happen thisns week. >> yeah, that could very welly w be outside our studios it. it's looking down from ourur tower camera. >> there you go.>> the >> i don't know where that is. >> underneath the mounds mightat be the cars buriedh underneath. uer lord knows there's a ton ofws t people who can't find their find the cars. >> i went by one of the metro m commuter lots yesterday andrd there's always cars still inal cars stil there and it was like whiteik mushrooms popping up everywhere.here >> can i digress. if you spend all the time the t digging out your car and yound get back and someone is parked i par in that spot, what is the proper -- what should you do?at should you do? >> along the street. alo >> yeah. >> it's a public street.c str you can't do that. >> you spend all that timee digging yourself out and thenhe someone parks in your spot you spent hours digging out. >> in 2010 remember when this happened and people were putting their names and thisnames and is mine and blah, blah, blah. we did a story the other day. d you do that. t >> i think we need to resurrect this again becausein this is becoming b an issue.ss >> there needs to be protocol. proco >> i'm being told you need to n

do your weather so let met stop. stop. >> 6-mile visibility.-mil the reason i showed this iswethis because frederick was down to two and half miles so now it's updated. there's no visibility issues.y is still there could be a few spots of ground fog out there. outhe not looking like it's a big deal.deal. 19 degrees for the city five dulles, manassas 3 degrees frederick 3 degrees. some spots it's cold. s 19 here in the city and t cit annapolis at 21 degrees.1 deee clouds are trying to come in. they'll thicken throughout thegh day today so we'll get a a little sunshine to start ande totart a then as we progress throughhr the day more and more cloudsuds coming along.. 18 at 8:00 a.m. 32 by lunchtimely we'll briefly getlyet over freezing briefly and thenn we'll cool off again in the afternoon. afte that's your forecast. forec here's traffic;, is. erin como, is working hard. >> gw parkway northboundorbo remains closed through atclgh least noon according to police. that is between spout runenpout parkway and 123 for snowno removal so you'll have to finde t

an alternate there. use a lothe. use of caution if you have to hit if the roads this morning. mor plows working hard on ourur interstates and secondariesec dooling with a lot of ice andth a snowy conditions.ondition silver spring a water main break university boulevard bou eastbound between east wayne east w and piney branch road.rah we'll check in with a water main break in alexandria andxandri your metro he schedule is sed operated on a limited scheduleed schedule today with your next look at traffic.affi back to you guys. >> the big digout isn't the dig only thing people are talking tal about. super bowl 50 the matchup is all set and both home teams won. first peyton manning and the man broncos beat tom brady'srady's patriots in a really close exciting game in denver. denve then the panthers rolled over carson palmer's cardinals 49 to 15 to clinch the nfc title.it the big game will be played pla two weeks at levy stadium sann francisco 49ers stadium. sdi that's a fun place. >> nice and warm. w

dabbing it. >> you can dab. >> i'll dab in this direction so i don't like hit you orike anything. anhi we're back to the bigcko t digout locally.al if you have plans to fly outs to of town today some good news, new some bad news.ew details next. >> but first keep sending us your blizzard pics. bzz look at this little guy right rht here.re he's helping his mom shovel s all that snow. s maybe he is or maybe he's not. n >> we're teasing you. w t >> use the #fox5 digout or thet or t winter awakens. awakens. we'll try to share as many asy we can. >> ♪

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>> ♪ >> quiet day on capitol hill.n the house postponed severalcapo votes. this week including one onclud overriding the president'sdent healthcare veto. senators meanwhile plan tole p t begin work on wednesday night. extending the delay imposeday impos even before the storm hit. h >> little bit of good news fors for air travelers locally.ocally at least one runway at both reagan national and dulles d will be opened for flightsli this morning but there are a still plenty of cancellations.ations as for bwi marshall limited limited service there as well and already a lot of cancellationsllatio for today. tod and if you had plans to y had attend the washington autoton aut show it will not open untilntil tomorrow. tomo it will still run through sunday, though and all and activities remain as sched scheduled. >> the economy could take an $850 million hit when the weather forced businesses to close.ose. the overall impact might not

be bad because businesses madeseusin extra money from people stockple up in advance of the storm. sto >> when you need to have yourveou sidewalk shoveled. >> plus we'll check in withl our mchegan dice who is live inlive in alexandria at the scene of a o water main break. details of that coming up right after this. look, i know you're a cow and all. and you may not know what i'm talking about, but, uh. the yogurt made from your

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>> ♪ >> saw you, gary. >> there's somebody out there this morning that doesn't haveomt do a plow in the front. >> you know what, he's got his whole back of his pickup pic packed down with snow.with sno >> if you're out this morning you need to be doing something good. >> ooh, look, did you see the little fishtail when the caris came around and hit theht ice. >> yes. >> yes. >> now they're freaked out.hey' they're like oh my gosh i my gosh i should not be out here. not >> wife is screaming at the husband i told you.ld temperature sit at 19. a 19. dulles is five.ive. bwi marshall is 12 degrees sogree that's what we're keeping an keepi eye on. detroit is 27, cincinnati is i 22, saint louis a 36 degrees. it's 45 for little rock.k. coldest of the air is dues north of us in the eastern canada but, you know upstreamw, upstr here in central and westernrn canada there's not a lot of cold air right now. right now up and down the next few dames few d towards the end of the weeke wee hopefully we're not talkingnoal about another storm coming ourer s

com way. there is a little coastal areaal that we're going to keep anoing to kee eye on that's going to be to b thursday into friday.ri don't panic or anything likeg that. we'll just deal with that asst d it gets a little can closer.se not a lot of agreement on that that storm right now being realeing r close to the east coast that coast it would bring us a big problem. pr we'll keep an eye on it. fargo 21 degrees dallasees, dallas temperatures are in the up arehe 50's. 50's clouds are coming from west to to east. as the sun comes up thisomes u morning we'll have some highe clouds initially probably p going to be a beautiful but sunrise and then cloudsud thicken up through the days days, okay, so that will keep temperatures lower 30's, midid 30's for us here in the city. cy. i'm just jumping forward toorrd tomorrow morning on futurecast. tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. we should have fair skies.fair skies that means cold temperaturesd tempera once again certainly out ininly the 20's and below freezing. as we we progress through thehrough day tomorrow you see this t system gathering strength out to the west. w

this is all rain.l r tomorrow we'll be warm enougharm enoug so that most of this is going to be rain. if we get a few showers comingrs on across, temperatures willre w drop back down to freezing andin below going into tuesdayy night, wednesday morning soay m that could be a few problemsrobl out there. the wednesday morning hopefully there's enough clouds tuesdayy night, wednesday that it will keep temperature a little bitperature above freezing so that would mean we continue to melt andto melt its not a huge problem withroblem wit even more severe icing conditions. cond wednesday afternoon at 6:00at p.m. we have fair skies here. let's go to the seven-day forecast. fore i'll show you what we cant c expect as we get through the next few dames we're talkinge're t about temperatures -- there we go. go 37 tax 40 on wednesday.ne notice wednesday morning right now we're projecting in the city only 34 degrees.4 degr that would be an all night melting but i think some ofnkome the suburbs will be down atwi be dow freezing or below. b colder thursday. friday -- we'll watch thursdayh thursda and friday for another storm. anoth s right now it doesn't look likeoo it's a big deal but as it getss

closer it may become one.. here's erin como with a look l at traffic. >> 5:48. we're dealing with problems.s. in northern virginia askingin motorists to use extractions extractio because of prefreezeefre overnight. they've lifted hov restrictions.rict that's to help keep thingseep t moving if you have to be out. o watch nor snow drift and snodrif changing conditions. metro limited undergroundnder service 7:00 a.m. to midnight mid orange line to boston to east mark. red line medical stender unionical station.stat green line fort totten to anacostia.osa. silver blue yellow service is still suses spended. spe i have the lap listed on my theap lis twitter at erin fox5 d.c. if5 d you have any questions aboutions a the service.vice aside from that in silversilv spring a water main break university boulevard eastbound etbound want to east wayne avenue and and piney branch road.ney branch taking a look at all of our of routes right now bw parkway par 95 we're seeing green on our

map because there's not any's not a traffic out.trafc o very few vehicles and trucks. t we're seeing plow trucks go by. use caution.. avoid bw parkway at spout run.ou they anticipate it being i b closed until about noon and a then out in al alexandria alexand water main break westboundes king street closed at quakert lane. that's where we continue ourtinu team coverage with megan dice.an she's at that location. lat she's been tracking ourrackingur conditions all morning long.g. megan.men. >> hey, erin and take a looke a l at this, you guys.uy we're literally standing in this matter.te i mean it really flowinglly fl right now. the crews are not on the way yet. as you can see just up the way here you could see alexandriaxandria police block off this street.ee we're at king street and quaker lane.er l this goes all way to radford road. ad. look at that water flowing we forgot our bathing suits thists t morning.morn it's westbound side.'s westbound s you'll need to find a detourind a det this morning. eastbound side still openedd side sti and i just talked to t

alexandria police sayingic there's no eta on a fix. f the crew hasn't arrived. aived they got the call at 3:20 this 3:2th morning. i put some calls into virginia vgini american water. wat no word if anyone in this area area has lost water service or ifvice o they will.they sometimes when you're w repairing the water maing the breaks you have to shut off have to s the water. what causes a water main break. one of the big kings a big change in water temperature. we'll send it back to you back ladies. >> thank you erin what a erin a mess -- or thank you megan. meg sorry about that.abt that. >> yes yes. >> okay, we are going to brakeng to brak and we'll be back on the other side of this with more information on the digout from the blizzard of 2016.

>> now that the snow has comethe and gone where to put it all. tt it mounds of snow piling upil across the region.ross the reg in d.c. crews are using dump trucks to pile some of the snow outside of rfk stadium. staum however there are concernsther about all the salt and debris deb that is mixed in the no, sir n s tainting the anacostia river river near the stadium. but officials tells they have taken steps to make sure thaturth that does not happen.t hpe >> getting around this weekendd th weekend was a hassle.assl , almost nearly impossible.po. imagine having to give birth b to triplets in this blizzard. this bl crystal lee ofi virginia didginia that on sunday she gave birth to identical triplet girlsplet slaw due on saturday butue osatu waited a whole extra dayxtra d because of the snow.e ofw. mom and babies are doing well.ng wl. congratulations to that tha

growing family.ily. >> with several schools closedls close today 10 schools across thes district will be serving breakfast and lunch. lunch. meals will be distributed toed t students and families fromand faes f 10:00 this morning untilorning u 2 o'clock this afternoon.erno you can finder full list of participating schools on ouring web site at fox5d.c.com.ox5d.c.c >> i'm so glad to see.ee that i have a teach are friend frien who is so concerned about somebout of his students who may notho m n have had a legal today. kudos to whoever thought to doever that. good news for those whor se w parked their cars in metro met garages over the weekend.eekend metro transit police will not willot enforce overnight parkingrki restrictions today.ay parking gates are going togoing stay opened in that opusopus through 9:30 on tuesday tosday allow vehicles to exit thoseho garages free of charge. now some homeowners are a on the clock in the district i youn have 24 hours from the time the storm ends to clear cle your sidewalks and curbs ornd c you're going to face a $25 fine. in virginia the rules vary by var county. but fairfax and prince william counties are not legally

required to shovel theiro sidewalks. in maryland residents have between 12 and 72 hours after aft a storm to shovel their sidewalks or they risk a fine. the time frame depends on exactly where you live. liv i think courtesy should just dictate tomorrow. trow. let's do it. i >> right now time to do this. this. our facebook fan of the dayk fan the and today it is the louisouis family.fami. clearly they're making themaking t best of the blizzard of 2016.01 >> lauren says her husbandus built this igloo in their the front yard and we love it. i looks like so much fun. f for your chance to be tomorrow's fan leave a comment and photo below the lewis' picture on our facebook page.kag if you build a better iglooteigloo than that -- that is amazing. amazin >> if you build a better igloo from that beale do live le coverage from it. steve and tucker will bean joining us. >> we are back in just a moment.

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>> ♪ >> this is fox5 news morning.ox5 news m >> all right a-head ator a-hea 6 o'clock this morning the bigheig digout continues.ontinu here's a live look outside. outside it is monday morning january 25th.ja many of are you still snowedtill snowe in this morning.in we have our crews spread outd all across the region for you. y good morning thanks formo joining us this morning, i'mrn steve chenevey.eve cve >> i'm holly morris in for allison seymour today. t >> wo fox5 news new morning. the federal government isvernment is closed today. however emergency and teleworkk ready employees should followd agency policies.olicie >> closed today most schoolsd toda

in our area.in ourre all of the closings aresis scrolling on the bottom ofing your screen.cr let's get you caught up,augh up, though, with the latest in thet blizzard aftermath.ft 30 deaths are now blamed on the storm. about half of which are due towh shoveling and carbon monoxide. mox one of the latest fatalities an 82-year-old d.c. man who. m had a heart attack while attack wh shoveling.in >> metro today will try to get somewhat back on track.on t kind of a dry run for them. limited rail service on therail orange red and green lines and g l begins at 7 o'clock thisckhi morning. limited bus service will startw at noon.at n erin will have more on that in tt a minute. minute. at least one runway will oneway be opened this morning at each at reagan national and dulles. bwi marshall's web site listsite li plenty of cancellations butut also some flights that are dueligh tha to take off from baltimore b this morning. m >> new this morning, prince george's county fire department fighting the snowig and the cold overnight to put put out this house fire in the fir 6900 block of 23rd place in in chillum. one person and an infan